Outcomes

Innovation With Impact

Identify problems in medical informatics with high potential for impact and utility

Problem Solving Skills

Formulate problems, critically evaluate them and research & build methods to solve them

Knowledge-based Scholarship

Comprehend, recall and apply concepts in computing, health, mathematics and medical informatics

Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Experiential Learning

Participate in teams with other professionals developing and adapting computer science solutions to health problems

Professional and Leadership Skills

Develop skills in ethics, communications, presentation, publishing, media, networking, leadership and team management

EDI Awareness and Promotion

Train with experts in race and informatics, inclusive workplaces, anti-racism, mental health, gender diversity, unconscious bias and intercultural awareness

News

Outstanding Achievements by Med-i CREATE Students at ImNO 2025

We are thrilled to announce that four Med-i CREATE students Vivian Nguyen, Laura Connolly, Kaito Hara-Lee and Bining Long have won Best Presentation awards in their respective sessions at the prestigious IGT x Imaging Network of Ontario (ImNO) 2025 Conference. The IGT x ImNO Joint Symposium was held in Toronto on March 5-6. Congratulations to all of them for their...

Kick-Off Event for 4th Year of Med-i CREATE Program

On Thursday, October 25, 2024, new students, current cohort members, and faculty gathered to welcome the latest cohort of the Med-i CREATE program. Students from Western University participated remotely. This event provided an opportunity for incoming students to connect with their peers, previous cohorts, and faculty members. The orientation, held at the Centre for Health Innovation (CHI), included an overview...

Med-i CREATE Students Shine at MICCAI 2024: Paul Wilson Wins Young Scientist Award

This year, Med-i CREATE students made a remarkable impact at the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), held in Marrakesh, Morocco. The presetigious conference allowed the Med-i CREATE stduents to demonstrate their expertise and dedication through various contributions. Mohamed Harmanani, representing Mahdi Gilany, presented papers at the workshops, while Paul Wilson presented his research...

Med-i CREATE Students Awarded NSERC Scholarships

Congratulations to Maha Kesibi, an MSc student, and Paul Wilson and Chris Yeung, PhD students, on receiving the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) award. This award provides financial support to exceptional scholars pursuing their degrees.

Director

Parvin Mousavi

Prof. Comp/ECE/Pathology, member of the Royal Soc of Canada, College of New Scholars

As the world’s population grows to 10B by 2050, technology-enabled innovation is the critical to ensuring well-being for all. While AI and informatics show great promise in rapid analysis of next-generation large scale data, future workers will require highly specialized training fit to the unique nature of health data. We aim to solidify Canada’s competitive advantage in the global space through concerted efforts to train computer scientists with specialized multi-disciplinary experience in medical informatics and digital health, and engage diverse groups and lived experiences in our training.

Projects

Integration, federation, and retrieval of large-scale data repositories in Canada

We collaborate with the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) and the Ontario Health Data Platform (OHDP) to tackle novel challenges in data management and devise evaluation frameworks that center on security, performance and fairness.

Next generation of actionable prescriptive analysis using multi-resolution, multi-modality data

We build computation models of disease from multi-omics data using machine learning, deep learning and evolutionary algorithms, focusing on innovations that address the unique nature of health data and the unavailability and vagueness of gold-standard labels (e.g., pathology labels).

Democratization of AI, software and data for healthcare

We're international leaders in developing and disseminating open source software using low-cost point-of-care imaging. Our positive impact on the global computer–assisted medical interventions community has is constantly expanding. We'll meet new challenges for discovery, refinement of methods and innovative AI-powered solutions using large open source data, hence democratizing access to care and positive outcomes of AI.

Featured Students

Bining Long
School of Computing
Queen's University
Bining is an MSc student in Computing at Queen’s University. She works under the supervision of Professor Gabor Fichtinger as a member of the Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery. Previously, she received her BCompScH (2024) with a concentration in AI and…
Kaito Hara-Lee
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Queen's University
Kaito is a MASc student working under the supervision of Dr. Gabor Fichtinger and Dr. Parvin Mousavi. Kaito's research centers on enhancing surgical navigation and intervention through medical robotics for breast conserving surgery. Current Program: Master's of Applied Science in…
Dashti Ali
School of Computing
Queen's University
Dashti is a PhD student in Computing in Prof. Amber Simpson’s lab at Queens University. He achieved his MSc in Scientific Computation from the University of Nottingham and his BSc in Mathematics from Koya University. He is a researcher in…
Faranak Akbarifar
School of Computing
Queen's University
Faranak Akbarifar is a PhD student in the School of Computing, Queen's University. She received her BSc in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) and MSc in biomedical engineering from University of Tehran (Tehran, Iran) in 2007…

University Partners

Western University